No thoughts, no advice, just envy of your perfect location! 73, Steve N6SJ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list Tower
All I recently put up a US Tower HDX-589 crank-up. UST recommends grouting the the space between the base plate and the top of the foundation block. I have purchased the proper non-shrink constructio
Warren The engineer at US Tower told me a Home Depot bronze ground clamp on my galvanized HDX-589 tower would be fine. The clamp wraps around a tower brace and the #2 copper wire goes into a hole wit
I want to level my new US Tower HDX-589. I put a 4' carpenter's level on all three legs of the base section and have levelled them. This is all US Tower recommends. Is there anything more I can do? I
John Why not cut off part of your mast to lower the antenna and reduce the load when raising and lowering? The 5' less mast would also reduce the raising weight, whereas an additional shelf 5' lower
Richard When I ordered my HDX-589 I asked the US Tower structural engineer about having them add a second thrust bearing and mounting the rotor plate lower down. He convinced me it wasn't a good idea
Ray I've always had good luck with Berz-O-Matic propane torches. They come with a fool-proof flint & steel igniter that has never failed me. I wore one out in 25 years and the second one is still goi
Bruce I'd recommend the crank-up. I recently put up a US Tower crank-up tower in my forested area which gets lots of wind. I thought about a self-supporting tower, but something like a Trylon that wo
A while back on TowerTalk I saw a comment that a nice solution for long 8-conductor rotor cable runs is a pair of "12-3 with a ground" Romex cables, which provides eight conductors. I'm thinking of u
Thanks to everyone for the very useful inputs on rotor cable! Vy 73, Steve N6SJ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ TowerTalk mailing list
Don You can find many tower manufacturers' foundation diagrams and rebar schedules on-line. You might search for a tower with similar height and wind load specs to what you plan and use their canned
Rick I think you're asking for trouble if you don't have a thrust bearing above the rotor. The wind will either crack the rotor housing or break the bolts holding it to the plate. This sounds like a
I want to add a remote raising/lowering control to my US Tower HDX-589 motorized crank-up. I have heard that someone out there has designed a system that might be simpler/cheaper than the RMC-1000 th
Exposed aggregate is usually just a surface layer of the pretty finish rocks, applied at just the right time after the surface of the concrete has started to set. Wait too long and the rock doesn't h
Has anyone here used SteppIR's Remote Driver board with CAT 5 cable for a long run to the tower? I want to pull some CAT 5 in my conduit for future stacked SteppIR antennas. Do I need a separate CAT
Thanks for all of the tips on CAT 5 cable. Actually I did receive an answer from SteppIR today and it turns out I will need two separate CAT 5 cables for two antennas. These CAT 5 cables will be term
Larry If you go directly to the M2 website, open the .pdf file for the OR2800 rotator. On page 8 of 11, there is a table titled "Cable Information". They tell you how big a wire you need for various
Sounds like you need to name your winch after a famous wench...Jezebel, perhaps? 73 es heal up! Steve N6SJ _______________________________________________ ____________________________________________
Ray Actually LDF5-50 is 7/8" hardline, and man it is HARD. Have you tried unwinding a bit from your 100' roll? Be sure you have a nice straight route with no bends. 73, Steve N6SJ ___________________
I'd do the same, except I'd use homemade true open-wire line (not ladder line), much lower loss than coax. With the relays at the antennas. 73, Steve N6SJ ____________________________________________